Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has died at the age of 86 after a long battle with cancer, his daughter Keiko Fujimori said Wednesday night.

Controversial former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has been buried after three days of national mourning.

Many Peruvians still revere Fujimori for pulling the country out of a severe economic crisis in the 1990s and defeating the Shining Path terrorist group. Others say his authoritarian rule was to blame for clandestine military killings. He spent some 16 years behind bars for human rights abuses.

Nearly two decades before he won the presidency in Peru, Fujimori got a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Alberto Fujimori, the former Peruvian president whose decadelong presidency began with triumphs only to end in a disgrace of autocratic excess that sent him to prison, has died.

The former strongman’s political project lives on in his ideology of Fujimorismo, championed by his polarizing daughter. Peru’s collective memory will be the judge in the face of enduring impunity.

Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori, who was convicted of human rights abuses and corruption, has died aged 86. Fujimori governed Peru between 1990 and 2000 before being forced from office amid allegations of corruption.

Despite his convictions for corruption and human rights abuses, many see the president who has died at 86 as the country’s greatest leader

Relatives of the victims of army massacres lament that Fujimoro went to his grave without showing remorse for their deaths